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York Hospital

Answer

NHS England publishes monthly data on referral to treatment waiting times to report performance against the legal right that patients have to start consultant-led treatment within a maximum of 18 weeks from referral for non-urgent conditions. Waiting times for patients whose treatment started during the month and involved admission to hospital are described in the data as admitted pathways. Not all admissions to hospitals are for surgery.

The following table shows the number and percentage of admitted pathways longer than 26 weeks at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in each year since 2009-10.

Number and percentage of admitted pathways¹ longer than 26 weeks at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, 2009-10 to 2015-16

Financial year	Number longer than 26 weeks	Percentage longer than 26 weeks
2009-10	622	3.8%
2010-11	410	2.4%
2011-12	769	4.8%
2012-13	1,034	4.5%
2013-14	1,635	6.5%
2014-15	1,322	5.2%
2015-16	1,368	5.2%

Source: Consultant-led referral to treatment waiting times, NHS England

Notes:

1. Before October 2015, adjustments were allowable to admitted pathways for clock pauses, where a patient declined reasonable offers of admission and chose to wait longer. From October 2015, there is no provision for clock pauses under any circumstances and admitted pathways are unadjusted.
2. York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust acquired Scarborough Hospital in 2012.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

68514

Session

2016-17

Subjects

Waiting lists Surgery York Hospital

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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